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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/movie … to-tv.html

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New York Times wrote:

LOS ANGELES — On Feb. 24 Hollywood will turn out for the Oscars. But it’s starting to feel as if it might be “The Last Picture Show.”

If you're saying a young Cybill Shepherd will take her top off, I might watch this year.

/you're probably not saying that

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

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The article reads like "less people are going to the cinema and we don't like the few movies that they do go to see"

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Hollywood has been threatened by TV since TV began. All the innovations (wide-screen, surround sound, 3D, etc) were to keep one step ahead of TV.

For me, seeing a movie has become like going to the theatre/opera now. With premium IMAX tickets, you've gotta book a long time in advance to get the good seats and it costs over $50 for two.

DiF have discussed the changing "tent-pole to regular movie ratio". It does feel like there's fewer quality mid-budget movies being made. Avengers made a bucket-load, so 10 more of those. And after a while they become bland white-bread empty calories. But if the newly emerging markets (e.g. China, Brazil, India, etc) lap them up, then Hollywood movies will become like cigarettes (i.e. past peak saturation in the west, but taking off in the developing world).

What started with Jaws (A & B movie swap budgets) ends up with wall-to-wall teen superheroes.

But Hollywood has bounced back from crises before, so I'm an optimist. I'm not even sure it's a crisis. There's gotta be something to supply  the demand for new content. Future content may not be screened in traditional cinemas, but so what?

not long to go now...

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12 months ago I'd have told you the industry is fucked and movies as I used to love them are dead.
However, shit like Battleship bombed, and now we're into this amazing 6 month stretch of risky, violent, mid-budget R-rated films, and I'm thinking there's hope again. If in a 3 month span I can go watch The Master, Dredd, Looper, Cloud Atlas, Universal Soldier Day of Reckoning, 7 psychopaths, Django Unchained, Flight, Argo, and Zero Dark Thirty, either its a ridiculous fluke, or someone in Hollywood is on the same page as I am.

And that's without even looking at some of the more ambitious stuff hitting next year, like Elysium and Gravity. If Hollywood keeps making good films, people will keep coming out to see them (at least some of them), and we don't have to worry about TV destroying the market.

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Sure those films are being made, but remember that most of them bombed. Even The Master didn't perform to expectations. For every Looper and Argo, there's a Dredd or Cloud Atlas. Maybe the few successes on that list can start a trend. I hope so, at least.

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